With a dedication to ongoing treatment, often beginning with intensive residential care, most individuals can live normal or almost-normal lives.
Yet in the presence of emotionally pleasant things, such as films, pictures, tastes, or just day-to-day life, people with schizophrenia report experiencing as much pleasure as do people without schizophrenia.
Unfortunately, most people with schizophrenia are unaware that their symptoms are warning signs of a mental disorder.
Their lives may be unraveling, yet they may believe that their experiences are normal.
Or they may feel that they're blessed or cursed with special insights that others can't see.